Obama: My gigantic deficit will create a solid economic foundation or something
posted at 9:56 pm on March 24, 2009 by Allahpundit
I know I’m being cynical, but darn it, I can’t help it: I’m skeptical.
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Did he really say he’s angry about the national debt? BWAHAHAHA!
chunderroad on March 24, 2009 at 9:59 PM
It’s all about health care, education, and green energy. That’s all he talked about tonight. He wants to spend on this money on this crap. Except when he cuts health care costs. UGH.
Brat4life on March 24, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Well, I think TOTUS is rootin’ for him. It’s not easy being a president AND a popstar.
benthere5516 on March 24, 2009 at 9:59 PM
on=all
Brat4life on March 24, 2009 at 10:00 PM
Dude, he’s investing in health care, which means Uncle Sam is gonna be Uncle Scrooge McDuck down the road. Duh. I mean, ask Cuba. It totally works.
Pasalubong on March 24, 2009 at 10:00 PM
the myth that education leads to prosperity is” you have belly dancers and air cushions with master’s degrees….
what is needed is a realistic assessment of personal earnings worth and unions run contrary to that Mr. Ogabe…
sven10077 on March 24, 2009 at 10:01 PM
Is he wearing a shark skin suit, too?
chunderroad on March 24, 2009 at 10:01 PM
TOTUS got dissed for LCDTV-OTUS tonight.
Pasalubong on March 24, 2009 at 10:01 PM
So what did I miss? Checking AP’s twitter account did Helen Thomas rant about Bush or the Jooos tonight or both?
I got to know!!!!
Lance Murdock on March 24, 2009 at 10:01 PM
I wish he’d end his campaign and start governing soon.
gh on March 24, 2009 at 10:02 PM
“Uh, uh, uh, it all comes back to health care.”
Didn’t the media roast Palin for a similar remark(taken out of context of course) during the infamous Katie Couric interview?
Doughboy on March 24, 2009 at 10:02 PM
awesome job
awesome job everyone
God love ya
blatantblue on March 24, 2009 at 10:02 PM
So what did I miss? After checking AP’s twitter account I noticed some talk about Helen Thomas. Did she rant about Bush or the Jooos tonight or both?
I got to know!!!!
Lance Murdock on March 24, 2009 at 10:01 PM
Lance Murdock on March 24, 2009 at 10:02 PM
So basically, pass the budget or the economy will just end forever, and everything is Bush’s fault.
Sweet plan.
John_Locke on March 24, 2009 at 10:03 PM
You know, if liberals really think all their social programs are so great, why not make them optional? You want to have Social Security when you retire – fine, pay into the system. If you think you can do better on your own, you don’t have to pay those taxes. And so on for many of these programs.
kc8ukw on March 24, 2009 at 10:03 PM
that snoozefest made me miss TOTUS
alexraye on March 24, 2009 at 10:04 PM
This whole press conference was a bunch of nothing and BS.
jencab on March 24, 2009 at 10:04 PM
Obama: First I’m gonna triple the deficit, then cut it in half.
dugan on March 24, 2009 at 10:04 PM
He’s lost . . . he’s totally and irrevocably lost. The man has no idea what he is doing or what the outcome of his actions will be.
rplat on March 24, 2009 at 10:05 PM
The only thing this man is angry about is that he can’t declare himself King and be done with it.
Terrye on March 24, 2009 at 10:05 PM
Pentagon to drop global war on terror for overseas contingency operation.
WTF, talk about a generic name for whatever.
maverick muse on March 24, 2009 at 10:05 PM
rplat:
I think you are right.
Terrye on March 24, 2009 at 10:05 PM
Yet another campaign promise he broke: the middle class tax cut is gone. :D This will play really well with my lib buddies at work that kept using that as a reason how he’s helping their own personal economies. Yay!
oddjob1138 on March 24, 2009 at 10:07 PM
Geez…the economy was weak to begin with. Four years of King Obama’s machinations, and the old girl might keel over and die.
Our work for next fall needs to start now…we have to hit the ground running to save our country.
ZJPolitical on March 24, 2009 at 10:07 PM
Helen Thomas nodded off for a moment on camera. She looked ill. I didn’t hear her given a chance to speak. Few were, because Obama’s answers took 15 minutes self replicating ad infinitum.
maverick muse on March 24, 2009 at 10:07 PM
Can anyone actually back up his assertion that the stimulus saved teachers and cops?
Because I hadn’t heard that at all.
jimmy the notable on March 24, 2009 at 10:07 PM
Pentagon to drop global war on terror for overseas contingency operation.
WTF, talk about a generic name for whatever.
maverick muse on March 24, 2009 at 10:05 PM
Wow. That’ll strike fear in the hearts of our enemies.
I want my country back.
kingsjester on March 24, 2009 at 10:08 PM
Double the deficit and cut it in half? Isn’t that called……….completing the square? ha ha ha ha
This guy is a psychopathic LIAR!!!!
RealDemocrat on March 24, 2009 at 10:08 PM
Fanmail from some flounder
izoneguy on March 24, 2009 at 10:08 PM
tooo
…
much… new…
math…
cant…take….any…
more…..
new…math..
blatantblue on March 24, 2009 at 10:08 PM
Yeah, and I’m going to cure my credit card debt by charging up 3 times as much debt on that, and to be certain I get it fixed I’m going to let more people abuse it. Then I’ll break down some doors and take other peoples money at gun point because they owe that to me.
Any liberal want to scoff about Reganomics now?!?!
DannoJyd on March 24, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Because of the countless posts which will doubtlessly follow whining about the national debt it needs to be pointed out that you guys have absolutely no credibility on that issue. None. My god do you not have credibility.
crr6 on March 24, 2009 at 10:10 PM
OMG … you sat through that shite … NRO always does a play-by-play and it takes about 3-4 minutes to scroll through their comments to see if there’s anything new.
For example, Goldberg on the teleprompter.
gh on March 24, 2009 at 10:10 PM
in school we just had a speaker come who used to work on healthcare for clinton, and she actually quoted rahm emanuel that “we shouldn’t waste a good crisis” and obama should try to use the crisis to reengineer social spending and the business investment.
Chiasmos on March 24, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Whenever a politician says they have a comprehensive …. whatever, I know they have no idea what they are doing or what to do.
thomasaur on March 24, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Same twisted logic that got him elected…community organizer therefore great POTUS???WTH
d1carter on March 24, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Right. Because the best way to tackle the national debt…is to add more debt!
Slublog on March 24, 2009 at 10:11 PM
I guess you missed the Cigarman years. If you were there you would understand the Bubba method of governing which is to keep campaigning while blaming the problems of governance on the other party.
BusHitler, Cheney, Palin, Rush Limbaugh!!! Arrrgghh…
DannoJyd on March 24, 2009 at 10:12 PM
The Tweets tonight weren’t as blindingly positive as I thought they might be. Hm.
Repurblican on March 24, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Well some debt is not a terrible thing, if it is within the realm of reason. Reagan spent at about 5% of GDP, Bush averaged less than that to be truthful..in terms of percentages not actual dollars, but what Obama is talking about doing is so far and beyond anything we have seen before that it really is in a category all its own.
And we don’t know what the full effects might be.
Terrye on March 24, 2009 at 10:14 PM
If he’s going to bore me or scare me , the least he can do is to do it only occasionally.
He’s going to become like a baseball game on TV- background noise.
That steals my money.
jjshaka on March 24, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Spending our way into prosperitySpending our way into oblivion
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on March 24, 2009 at 10:14 PM
What we have here is a failure to communicate.
Giuliani hit it on the head tagging Obama as Nada. Obama doesn’t know how to govern. This IS governing, so far as Obama is concerned, he’s doing his “leading” thang.
Everything that Obama does is so wrong. Rather than asking him to do more, impeach him and Pelosi and Reid and run them out of Washington before they make things worse than they already have.
Our survival requires repealing everything that Obama coerced. RESET.
maverick muse on March 24, 2009 at 10:14 PM
“Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States.”
OBAMA: Blah…(repeat 582,000 times)…thank you, and good night.
whitetop on March 24, 2009 at 10:15 PM
He has never Governed so He Campaigns. Don’t expect the Pretender in Chief do do anything more.
old trooper2 on March 24, 2009 at 10:15 PM
Us? You must be joking. Perhaps Bush has no credibility on debt, and many Republican members of congress are squishy, but we’ve been complaining about debt since…
Well, for me, since before I became a Republican.
Count to 10 on March 24, 2009 at 10:17 PM
You’re right. Because a Republican administration displayed sheer idiocy and spent waaaaaaaay too much money (which Bush did, and we screamed about), that means a Democrat administration should show how stupid that spending was by quintupling it in sixty days.
Obama spent more with one swipe of the pen than Bush did in six years of the Iraq War. Thank Obama for making irresponsible free-spending Bush (who was NOT a fiscal conservative) look like a tightwad.
aero on March 24, 2009 at 10:17 PM
In over his head…but then, he majored in socialism, not economics.
GarandFan on March 24, 2009 at 10:18 PM
You know what struck me? What amazed me about his mental disconnect, was when he was responding that we need to get to an economic model where we produce products.
The mental disconnect, though, is that he’s wed to the idea that businesses will bring back production jobs through maintaining high corporate taxes, and INCREASE the tax burden on the populace by MASSIVELY increasing gov’t debt.
This guys a joke.
ExSubNuke on March 24, 2009 at 10:18 PM
crr6: What’s your point, Obama has credibility when it comes to the national debt?
Vince on March 24, 2009 at 10:18 PM
No you Don’t!!
nolapol on March 24, 2009 at 10:19 PM
True. It’s on Drudge. On the open thread some clever ones already have a new acronym – we must have a contest today/tomorrow, for new acronym and carricature.
BSOTUS (big screen of the…)
BSTV – just what it is.
Entelechy on March 24, 2009 at 10:19 PM
It really p*sses me off every time he says he inherited a $1.3 trillion dollar deficit. It was a much smaller deficit until TARP, and HE VOTED FOR TARP, which makes him partly responsible for what he says he inherited.
Daggett on March 24, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Well, some of it was on the news up here in the great white north.
I was at grad school in New Jersey from ’81-’88 and heard all about the eeevils of Reagan from the philosophy and art-history students. However, there was some balance in the sciences back then. There were a couple of objectivists in my department (plasma physics) and I read a lot of rand.
gh on March 24, 2009 at 10:20 PM
So when I default on my mortgage and run up $20k-$30k on credit cards, I’m going to think to myself. Ya know what would get me out of the sh!t hole that I’m in? Spending more money!!!!
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on March 24, 2009 at 10:20 PM
I’m going on a hunger strike until a reporter, any reporter, asks him what green fuel to replace fossil fuel he actually contends is in the pipeline.
After all he is spending a quatloo or something on it. What is it he’s spending it on? R & D?
PattyJ on March 24, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Speakup on March 24, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Maybe he plans on tapping the methane from all the crap he spews at press conferences like these.
Daggett on March 24, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Obama: Converting a $1.3 trillion deficit (inherited) to a $10 trillion deficit (passed on to the next POTUS)
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on March 24, 2009 at 10:21 PM
I know I didn’t just here that we couldn’t go back to spend and borrow as a way to rebuild our economy did I. Because for sure that exactly what this clueless one is doing.
chemman on March 24, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Reagan even had deficits, but people this way and beyond having a deficit. This is the kind of debt that can not be paid. The deficits Reagan and Bush had were something that the economy could tolerate. In fact it was not until after 9/11 and the recession that there was a big deficit with Bush and then it began to go back down in 2004 and kept going down until the economy began to slow. But it was still nothing like what Obama is talking about doing.
Terrye on March 24, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Well, Obama keeps talking about “sacrifice.” Maybe the alternative energy he has in mind is the fresh blood of rich people sacrificed on the steps of the White House.
aero on March 24, 2009 at 10:23 PM
THANK YOU HAAVAAD! (you *&%^**!! of an institution)
nolapol on March 24, 2009 at 10:24 PM
I hate all his whining … i’ve only ever heard that tone from female politicians (exclusively on the left).
gh on March 24, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Darn that public education spelling just hit me again. Should be hear not here.
chemman on March 24, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Now THAT’S funny.
uncivilized on March 24, 2009 at 10:25 PM
aero, I don’t think it is going to be long before we see blood in the streets. If the gubmit doesn’t tone down this spending crap, people are ready to take up arms. I’m glad I bought more ammo today.
The time is getting near.
Offshore_Drilling on March 24, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Makes sense, that’s all that gets put up there to be read, BS!
nolapol on March 24, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Does the idiot have a wet suit on?
I mean what is that coat made of? Is it PETA friendly?
It looks cheap.
Mercy4Me on March 24, 2009 at 10:27 PM
So much for compassionate progressives paving the way for this authoritarian, purposely bankrupting our nation.
A loser says we deserve what we got; another loser gloats that it takes a Carter to get a Reagan. Bullsh8t.
maverick muse on March 24, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Dagget:
That is why Congress hung onto the budget until Obama came along and then let him sign it. That way they could claim it was Bush’s budget, but Obama signed it. Sneaky.
Terrye on March 24, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Funniest of the night!! Definitely need those new acronyms!!
davek70 on March 24, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
maverick muse on March 24, 2009 at 10:28 PM
What are you talking about?
nolapol on March 24, 2009 at 10:28 PM
SORRY, I misread your statement.
nolapol on March 24, 2009 at 10:29 PM
maverick:
Now wait a minute. This stuff of blaming Bush for everything has got to stop. Reagan was the one who really made it easy to run a deficit and still claim to be small government conservative.
Now what we are dealing with here is way beyond anything Reagan or Bush ever thought about.
So, let’s not blame Bush.
Terrye on March 24, 2009 at 10:29 PM
Terrye on March 24, 2009 at 10:27 PM
another play on inheriting from Bush
argh
When will Obama grow up?
maverick muse on March 24, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Wheelbarrows are hot, teeny weeny wallets are passe’?
Buy Danish on March 24, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Does this mean they’re going to fill the pothole around the corner from my house? ‘Cus that would really improve MY quality of live. K thks bye.
gemchick on March 24, 2009 at 10:30 PM
My god, and you do. Got to run and wash my fingers with lye.
Entelechy on March 24, 2009 at 10:30 PM
live = life
gemchick on March 24, 2009 at 10:31 PM
The Precedent is an angry marxist bent on exacting revenge on the US and the West. That’s it. The whole story. That is what motivates every single thing he does. It is the last question that must be answered before he will sign onto anything, “Will this hurt the US and the West enough?”
There is nothing else to this moron.
progressoverpeace on March 24, 2009 at 10:31 PM
The First Coming:
* Turned water into wine
* Walked on water
* Raised the dead
The Second Coming:
* Make socialism economically viable?
The first Messiah had easier miracles to perform.
TheBigOldDog on March 24, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Congess controls spending, budgets and taxes.
Congress has been in the hands of Obamas party since they were handed a160B$ deficit in 2007.
Obama has voted yes on every spending proposal that has created these deficits.
He created exactly what he inherited and he needs to quit whining about it and be a man.
Chuck Schick on March 24, 2009 at 10:32 PM
maverick:
I don’t think Obama will ever grow up. And as long as he has a Democratic Congress no one will try to force him to.
Terrye on March 24, 2009 at 10:32 PM
LOL. There went my tea. You owe me a new monitor!
conservative pilgrim on March 24, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Chuck:
True.
Terrye on March 24, 2009 at 10:33 PM
I agree wholeheartedly but I also think he is motivated by reparations.
sherry on March 24, 2009 at 10:33 PM
I know it does, it’s really whinny and condescending. as if Americans don’t know sacrifice or how to make things work. But I really don’t want anything he talks about to happen.
nolapol on March 24, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Since when does owing $1,600,000,000,000 (what we started with) plus $9,000,000,000,000 (what they’re adding to it) equal a strong economic situation?? Did I miss idiot math when I was in real school?
I’m going to try that. I’m going to spend 1 million dollars and assume that I’m eventually going to have 5 million. Because I’m magic like that.
mjk on March 24, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Well, I said previously that I wished he would stop campaigning and start governing and you replied “no you don’t” … so I was explaining why I do …
Of course we still have a conservative (sort-of) government in Canada …
gh on March 24, 2009 at 10:34 PM
2010 !!!
gh on March 24, 2009 at 10:37 PM
No question that reparations are a big thing for him, but I would contend that he likes the idea of reparations more because they hurt whitey and paint the US as a “bad country” than any benefit he might argue they give anyone else.
To me, when he says “social and economic justice”, he’s talking about the punishments more than anything. He doesn’t care about giving anyone anything, just taking things away from those he holds a great animosity towards.
progressoverpeace on March 24, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Again I misread your statement. I actually saw your PM (Stephen Harper)on TV and thought he was way more impressive that the Precedent. He didn’t do a lot of whining, mostly good straight talk.
nolapol on March 24, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Listen to all the buzzwords, this speech can mean anything he wants it to mean. It’s so very carefully stated with no specifics.
Maxx on March 24, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Oh God, America is in trouble! This guy is not up to running a country. He’s NEVER EVEN RUN A BUSINESS! GOD HELP US!! PLEASE!!
apco on March 24, 2009 at 10:42 PM
And my cat will leave a giant turd in her litter box. Means about the same thing, doesn’t it….
HornetSting on March 24, 2009 at 10:42 PM
The man is an amazing liar. Theres no other way to say it.
Dritanian on March 24, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Ah. Our press hates Harper … and he knows it. We have a few loose cannons in both the mainstream parties and when Harper got elected he did not allow anyone to talk to the press for the first two or three months. Gradually he eased up starting with the most reliable cabinet ministers. The press was furious but there was no ammunition for them. It was regrettable but necessary. He’d have been out in the first 6 months otherwise.
gh on March 24, 2009 at 10:43 PM
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